Post Strath

Yesterday I returned from a trip to South Australia. The Cornerstone team in Strathalbyn were running one of the annual mini-musters (i.e. a Cornerstone convention run on a smaller scale), and had invited me to be one of the speakers. Following the weekend mini-muster, some of our students stayed down for the whole week to have the experience of being part of a mission team. I remained with them for the week and learnt some interesting things. For example, in Australia people don't seem to have heard of Banoffee pie but they do have banana caramel pie, which is Banoffee pie in everything but name.

It was a busy week, but it was excellent in terms of giving all of us who were there an example of what life was like in a mission team. It was a great experience, and I also had some mighty fine cheesecake. All in all, a great time.

It was hugely encouraging to see what some of the guys who were at Canowindra last year had been getting up to. They had been doing some really great stuff with the young people in the town, and it helped me to realise that I had - in some small way - played a role in that.

I think my mini-muster talk is supposed to go up on the internet at some point, so I'll post a link to it here when it appears. Much of the content will not be new to regular readers of this blog, as I've been thinking through some of the related issues on these very pages.